The loafers were from barratts and although the correct size 5 they had a quite short toe area , and this meant they slipped more than some pairs, but Hanah didn't care because she liked them and she thought they made her feet look sexy.
As long as she didn't have to run she thought shed be ok , anyway her boy friend liked them.
Han had quite a long Walk, if she didn,t get a bus and she had woken up late that morning, so her choice of shoes could have been better. Her family was moving house and she had grabbed her backless loafers a couple of days earlier because she could wear them in and out of college. All her other clothes and shoes apart from a pair of jeans and a jumper were now in boxes. She went to the bus stop and dangled her shoes impatiently but no buses came Hanah decided to walk She ran a little but one of her shoes came off. Dame she thought slipping her foot back in the shoe. She carried on to college walking now, she new she would be in trouble if she was late so she tried to run squeezing her toes to keep the loafers on her feet.
Just then Hanah saw a bus coming up the hill, great she thought but the bus stop was across the road about 100 metres away So with out thinking She ran towards the bus which was now not far away. Squeezing her toes on the inner soles of the loafers she started running, but as she crossed the road both her loafers flew off her feet in different directions. Hanah now swearing out loud turned around to see were her shoes had ended up, as she did so, thud!, the bus drove straight over her right backless shoe.
The bus didn,t stop for her and it had just started to rain. She quickly ran to her left loafer which was lying in the kerb face down, she plunged her foot back in the shoe with relief, Stepping back she looked frantically for her right shoe, which was lying in the middle of the road the right way up, great she thought but the road was very busy and her shoe was now filling with rain.
Now wet and shoe less Hanah finally saw a gap in the traffic and carefully retreved her missing shoe. Thank God she muttered whist tipping the loafer upside down to get the water out. Just then whilst inspecting her damp shoe, balancing her now wet right foot on the top of her left shoe she discovered what was going to truly ruin her day.
When the bus had driven over her backless shoe it had ripped some of the stitching and some of the leather was now split.
Shit she shouted whilst slipping her wet right foot back in the shoe.
Hanah started walking again towards her college, her right loafer was now looser than her left and she had to walk even slower flexing her toes to keep the shoe on. Twenty minutes later and a good ten minutes after the 9am bell she arrived at college.
Han had by this time got used to her loose shoe and was now thinking about the guys she hoped to see at lunch time.
She dipped and dangled her shoes and worked hard. Forgetting about her embarrassing morning.
Hanah stayed in class at break because it was raining and also so that she could catch up on the work, she was thinking about the boys and didn,t want to miss out. Lunchtime came and she made her way with her friends, Natalie and Jody to the mall.
The three girls started the five minute walk to the mail and jody asked Hanah were she had brought her loafers from as she wanted a pair herself. Barratts Han replyed Natalie remarked how loose they seemed to be and Han told the story of her morning showing her friends the torn leather. They had reached the mall and went to the meeting point..
The girls meet the guys and flerted a bit then it was time to go back to college. On the walk back Han was starting to worry about her right shoe a little because it was now getting hard to keep on, she curled and squeezed her toes but to no avail and twice her backless shoe slipped off. Once back she asked her friends if anyone had a pair of trainers she could borrow but they all just laughed at her problem. Nobody had an athletic session in her year and trainers were otherwise banned , Hanah thought she would ok and sat down for the afternoon period she slipped her feet in and out of her loafers all afternoon
Just after break one of the trouble makers in her class saw her dangling her right broken shoe off her toes and decided to steal it for a laugh! The girl threw Hanahs loafer around the class room to her mates. Han was not initially bothered and laughed it off but an hour passed and Han was starting to worry, her foot was cold but finally after some intervention from the lecturer her shoe was finally given back. Unknowing to Hanah one of the girls had noticed the shoe was spit and had thought it would be funny if she made the tear a little worse!
Hanah slipped her foot back in the shoe with relief she continued to work keeping both her feet in her shoes firmly on the floor Finally it was home time, Hanah stood up putting her books away, she waited for the others to leave before making for the door. Just then her worst nightmare came true. Hanahs shoe came straight off her tight clad foot as she stepped out from the classroom, oh no she thought. Sliding her foot back in she managed to walk only as far as the school gates before she lost her shoe again. Han picked her right loafer up see why it kept coming off . To her horror the shoes stitching had completely come away and only about one and a half inches of the top part of the shoe was now secured, Han carefully slid her small delicate foot back in the shoe and headed for home but she only took about twenty steps before her shoe once again came of her foot leaving her with one loafer on and one off. Hanah shrieked, NO there were quite a lot of other girls walking home and Hanah felt very embarrassed, she continued trying to walk shuffling along but it was no good the loafer would just not stay on her foot.
Hanah concluded she had no other option but to remove her backless loafer and put it in her bag, she decided that because it was wet one shoe was better than none and made her way shoe less to the bus stop.
At the bus stop there were a few other girls waiting and Hanah tried to hide her bare foot whilst looking jealously at the other girls who were mostly wearing heels, minutes passed and the bus came Han got on last and payed her fare, the only empty seat was at the back Hanah sat down she crossed her legs and everyone saw her shoe less now very wet foot. Han suddenly remembered and tucked her bare foot behind her only shoe and started to cry a little. People must have wondered what had happened to her other shoe but nobody said anything. Hanahs stop came and she got off, by now the rain was harder than ever. She walked the short walk to her aunts house before remembering, Oh no shed cryed she was staying at her aunts over night and had no other shoes, and because her parents were moving house all her clothes and shoes were boxed up for the move. And to make things even worse she had college again in the morning, Hanah cried contemplating spending the whole next day with only one shoe. Dame loafers she shouted walking slightly off balance due to her missing backless shoe. She finally got to her aunts and went straight up to her room. Sitting on the bed she removed her broken loafer from her bag and just stared at it hoping it would repair itself. Her aunt was elderly and had no shoes she could borrow. Oh well she sobbed I will just have to go to college in my tights and hope no one notices. I hope its dry tomorrow she thought.
Hanah woke up to the sound of her aunt calling her, she got dressed with the same short black skirt and white blouse she put on new pair of black opaque tights and went down for breakfast. Trying not to think about her unwearable shoe she put on her coat then she paused - should she go barefoot or not. She looked outside it was dry. She decided after some time to take both her shoes with her but leaving them in her bag she left her aunts house barefoot shuting the door .
The cold pavement was a shock to her warm 70 denier tight clad feet as she started to walk. What was she doing she thought she must be mad, but she no choice but to continue . Han tried to avoid other people thinking that everyone was staring. Just then she stopped, her feet were cold and she missed her shoes more than ever. She took the backless loafers out of her bag and slipped them on. She managed about 10 steps before losing her stretched right backless shoe. Oh no she thought again wondering what to do, she begrudgingly put the broken shoe back in her bag. She finally got to college everyone was looking. Her friend Jody asked wheres your shoe han? Hanah started crying its broken and all my other shoes are boxed up for our move han said Jody now concerned went to lost property and asked if they had any shoes. She came back about ten minutes later with a pair of old pumps a size bigger than Hanahs feet, Finally Hanahs face lite up she slipped her cold sore feet in to them and went to class.
Unfortunately Hanahs ordeal was not quite over, after lunch time the principal gave her some bad news, im sorry he said but the shoes that you are wearing have just been reported lost, Hanahs face dropped. She begrudgingly slipped the heels off which wasn,t hard because they were too big any way, and gave them to him im sorry he said again and then left. Hanah did her work that afternoon wearing both her shoes but then finally the bell went Han again waited for the others to go then she slipped off her broken loafer and walked shoeless towards the gates. As she walked passed a litter bin she removed her broken shoe from her bag and threw it in. By now she didnt care and when a younger group of girls asked where her shoe was she just calmly said ive thrown it away cause its unwearable, do you think I lke wearing only one shoe , Han cried again, just then she had an idea, she new there was a shoe repair shop in the mall. Han went back to the bin and removed her other shoe from it,she then still wearing only her good shoe, headed straight for the mall, her loafers werent that old and the soles were not that worn,she thought,.
finally she arrived at the mall she slipped her broken loafer on her cold foot and shuffled her foot across the marble floor desperately trying to keep her shoe on
Han excitedly walked in to the shoe repair shop she slipped off her broken shoe and gave it to the guy behind the counter. The guy looked carefully at the split loafer before glancing down at her bare foot, Han tried to smile, then the guy spoke, yer I can repair it, but your have to wait a while- can you come back in an hour and I will have it ready for you he said. Hanah Who had spent most of two days with out the backless shoe thought for a second, then calmly said ok , she handed him the shoe, checked the time and walked out of the shop minus her shoe again!! Han went and sat down in the malls coffee shop, she ordered a drink and crossed her legs keeping her bare foot of the cold marble floor, she had her drink and sat for nearly the hour. Finally she made her way back to the repair shop, the guy was busy with her shoe and she waited patiently, then after about ten minutes the guy smiled and handed Hanah her shoe ; there you go love- he said Han was over the moon she slipped her loafer back on it felt snug again! She paid the guy and walked off to meet her friends, her shoes felt great and to this day she still wears them, although not to school, no she has reverted to wearing her high heel pumps speaking of her pumps ive got a story About them coming soon!!!
Enjoy mikeey.
